Enjoy your weekend!

Summer has arrived in Fort Myers, FL.

 

 

 

Just sayin'

 My husband sent this story to me in an email.  The meaning of the story is something that I have always tried to do each day and so I wanted to share it with you.  As I have always said, "life is short, so eat your dessert first".  Enjoy your week and remember to stop and smell the roses along the way.

Lisa Beamer on Good  Morning America - If you remember, she's the wife of Todd  Beamer who said 'Let's Roll!' and helped take down the plane over Pennsylvania that was heading for Washington, DC back  on 9/11. She said it's the little things that she misses most about Todd, such as hearing the  garage door open as he came home, and her children  running to meet him.  

 

Lisa recalled this  story:  

 

"I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband died  suddenly of a heart attack.  About a week after his death, she shared some of her insight with a classroom  of students. As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in through the classroom   windows and the class was  nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the edge of her  desk and sat down there.  

 

With a gentle look of reflection on her face, she paused and said, 'Class is over, I would like to share with all of you, a thought that is unrelated to class, but which I feel  is very important. Each of  us is put here on earth to learn,  share, love, appreciate  and give of ourselves. None of   us knows when this  fantastic experience will end.  It can be taken away at  any moment.  

 

Perhaps this is  the God’s way of telling us that we  must make the most out of  every single day. Her eyes,   beginning to water, she  went on, 'So I would like you all  to make me a promise. From  now on, on your way to school,  or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice.  

 

It doesn't have to  be something you see, it could be a scent, perhaps of freshly  baked bread wafting out of   someone's house, or it  could be the sound of the   breeze slightly rustling  the leaves in the trees, or the   way the morning light  catches one autumn leaf as it  falls gently to the  ground. Please look for these things, and cherish them. For,  although it may sound trite to some, these things are the  "stuff" of life.  The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy.   The things we often take  for granted.  

 

The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our   books and filed out of the  room silently. That afternoon,  I noticed more things on  my way home from school than  I had that whole semester.  Every once in a while, I think   of that teacher and  remember what an impression she  made on all of us, and I  try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we  all overlook.  

 

Take notice of  something special you see on your lunch   hour today. Go barefoot.  Or walk on the beach at sunset.   Stop off on the way home  tonight to get a double dip ice   cream cone. For as we get  older, it is not the things we did that we often regret,  but the things we didn't do.

 

Merry Christmas to all

To all my friends and family that are enjoy another type of weather....cold, wet, damp, and just plain yucky.

May you feel the warm sand between your toes!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Greetings from Sanibel Island

Happy Holidays....

Hard to believe the holidays are around the corner.

I wish you and your families a wonderful holiday season.

All is well here in Florida.....

The weather is not frightful 

the weather is very delightful

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! 

Fall day...

Finally, after a very long hot and humid summer it is a very comfortable 64 degrees outside.  My windows are open for the first time since maybe April.

A cold front, yes you are reading the correctly, has passed through last evening.  A cold front is something us Floridian's look forward to about now.  After you have months and months of temperatures in the 90's and only mid 70's at night and humidity that you just cannot explain to anyone because they have to experience it themselves.  A cold front is something you wish for! 

I know boohoo.....I still am wearing shorts, no long pants or sweatshirts!  Have a great week to all.

Sunset on the Gulf of Mexico

This was taken the weekend of Hurricane Isaac.  The gulf was so calm you never knew there was a storm out there!  On of my favorites!

Unwinding at the beach...

 from our cabin overlooking the bay at Tween Water Resort

 they even have a marina

 and they say a storm in approaching....

 where I ask????

 ahhhh...the warm sand between my toes....ahhhhh....

 I guess others decided to leave which left the beach deserted

 awesome sunsets

 breath taking views

to a wonderful weekend with truly great friends!!

My healing.....

They say that life isn't fair.  I have always said life is what you make of it; that you are in control of your destiny.  God will be there to steer you when you need it.  However sometimes you ignore the direction he is telling you to go and you head down the wrong path.  You get deeper and deeper on that path and you find you just cannot turn around to get back to where you belong and hopefully you stop and ask yourself how can I get back.  Other times you believe you can get back on your own without asking for help because you don't want anyone to know you have lost your way.  

My daughter was on that wrong path and she just could not get back and she did not stop and ask for help.   She thought they were her friends but she could not see that because the demons had a greater hold on her; greater than anyone can imagine.  Unfortunately she left us last month and is now is a better place.   My heart hurts but I know in my mind that I could not help her although I tried. 

Addiction is hell.  There is no other way to describe it.  It is hell for the addict and for the loved ones trying to help and left behind.  Only the addict can take the steps to want to get help and to want to be free and clean of the demons and unless they ask for help everyone else is there to pick up the pieces. 

I know I will get through this....one day at a time.....I miss her smiling face during happier times in her life. 

May God be with you and your family!

I'm still here...

I know, where have I been.  Well, working, working and oh yeah, working.  I suppose you can say I took a blogging vacation.

I've been reading your blogs and maybe even put a comment or two out there.

I usually check the blogs in the morning before I start my day, so I have not totally forgotten about you.

So have a happy Thursday and I'll be blogging again very soon!!  

Happy Valentine's Day to all....

....have a GREAT Day!!! 

And Enjoy Your Daily Blessings!!!

LIFE IS SHORT! FORGIVE QUICKLY!

LOVE TRULY! LAUGH UNCONTROLLABLY - AND, 

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE BRIGHTLY FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE!!!!